Love
There is none, O none but you
From Two Books of Airs: Light Conceits of Lovers (c. 1613)
There is none, O none but you,
That from me estrange your sight,
Whom mine eyes affect to view
Or chained ears hear with delight.
Other beauties others move,
In you I all graces find;
Such is the effect of love,
To make them happy that are kind.
Women in frail beauty trust,
Only seem you fair to me;
Yet prove truly kind and just,
For that may not dissembled be.
Sweet, afford me then your sight,
That, surveying all your looks,
Endless volumes I may write
And fill the world with envied books:
Which when after-ages view,
All shall wonder and despair,
Woman to find man so true,
Or man a woman half so fair.
Codex Note
Two Books of Airs: Light Conceits of Lovers (c. 1613)
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MLA
Campion, Thomas. “There is none, O none but you.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/59/.
Chicago
Campion, Thomas. “There is none, O none but you.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/59/.
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